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Four Alien Monogeneans, Including Trinigyrus peregrinus n. sp., Parasitic on the Invasive Armored Catfish Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Okinawa-jima Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
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Abstract
Four alien monogeneans, Unilatus unilatus
Mizelle and Kritsky, 1967
, U. brittani
Mizelle, Kritsky, and Crane, 1968
, Trinigyrus peregrinus n. sp., and Heteropriapulus heterotylus (
Jogunoori, Kritsky, and Venkatanarasaiah, 2004
), were collected from the gills of vermiculated sailfin catfish, Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus (Weber, 1991) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), in inland waters of Okinawa-jima island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Unilatus unilatus and U. brittani represent new country records for Japan. Trinigyrus peregrinus n. sp. is characterized by a coiled male copulatory organ that forms a circle and does not articulate with its accessory piece. Heteropriapulus heterotylus was newly collected from two rivers in south-central Okinawa-jima island. These monogeneans are all considered to be native to South America and to have been co-introduced with the host fish into the inland waters of the island by release of ornamental pet fish.
Received 22 12月 2015
Accepted 21 9月 2016
Acknowledgments:
We thank Takeshi Sasaki (University Museum, University of the Ryukyus [Fujukan]) and Koichiro Kawai and Tetsuya Umino (Hiroshima University) for providing laboratory facilities, and Daisuke Uyeno (Kagoshima University) for help with fish sampling. We are also grateful to Fabiano Paschoal (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro) for assistance with the literature. Thanks are due to two anonymous reviewers and Daisuke Uyeno for providing various suggestions for improving the manuscript. This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI grants (no. 15J05777 to M. N. and no. 15K07527 to K. N.)
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